A member of the Independent Senators Group is questioning why penalties for promoting genocide are increasing so greatly in the government’s new Online Harms Bill, C-63. Julie Miville-Dechêne raised the matter in Question Period on Thursdays
“While I applaud certain...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge announced Friday an independent advisory committee has been struck that will begin the search for a new president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada.
Chairing the committee is Just for Laughs president and CEO Charles Décarie. The...
CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Media Guild have inked a tentative labour...
Neighbourhood Connect (NHC), operating under 2621159 Ontario Inc. DBA...
A Quebec senator is calling for the government to increase its spending in newspapers and magazines. During Wednesday’s Question Period, Independent Senators Group member Tony Loffreda said...
Witnesses before the House of Commons committee on Canadian Heritage all agreed Tuesday that a forum on the future of the media is required. Whether government has a role was...
Quebecor Inc. reported a successful fourth-quarter as it closed out the 2023 fiscal year, which it said was largely due to the continued impact from its Freedom Mobile acquisition.
During a conference call with financial analysts on Thursday, the Montreal-based telecom...
Corus Entertainment Inc., Stingray Radio Inc., and...
The CRTC will initiate public consultation on Canada's Online News Act, formerly known as Bill C-18, next...
Organizations representing Canada’s creative industries are calling on...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
Stingray Group Inc. saw an increase in growth and revenue as it issued its third quarter results on...
OTTAWA–While artificial intelligence (AI) may seem daunting to people in...
OTTAWA–Foreign streamers will be a prickly problem for mainstream...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing to protest the job cuts at CBC/Radio-Canada announced last year. For...
CBC/Radio Canada has been ordered to pay costs after it lost a case over ministerial mandate letters in Ontario. Several groups, including APTN, the Canadian Association of...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said...
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding...
The Government of Canada is supporting Canadian feature films and television productions by investing...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public broadcaster’s top brass, will be getting their yearly bonuses at the end of March despite recently...
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Monday its plans to restructure its original content leadership team...
The CRTC has initiated a special consultation...
A coalition of nine advocacy groups and community...
As it gears up to launch several public consultations aimed at modernizing...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has joined up with other...
CBC/Radio-Canada will not be permitted to appeal a lower court’s ruling...
Cogeco Inc. is partnering with Quickplay to adopt their cloud-native OTT platform, the company announced in a Tuesday press release.
The collaboration will offer Cogeco Media's five million listeners...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Tuesday with...
The current and past Minister of Canadian Heritage were loath to endorse Catherine Tait’s leadership at CBC/Radio-Canada Tuesday. Before the day’s cabinet meeting, both...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge would not take the bait when the...
Gatineau, Que. – Telus Corp. asked the CRTC to...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge faced a barrage of questions...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight against cutbacks at CBC/Radio-Canada. Tuesday in Question...
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave 200 vacancies unfilled has ignited a heated discussion about the broadcaster's plea for access to base...
Canada's public broadcaster is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce and slashing some programming to deal...
Foreign streamers must pay their fair share of contributions to the Canadian broadcasting system, but...
Netflix Services Canada ULC says it has invested large amounts of money...
Those who stand to benefit from the Online...
Major broadcasters think that there should be a flexible contribution...
Renewal of the Canadian broadcasting system should not rely on one rigid...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight for a fund to help Canadian...
The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) on Friday called for the...
Representatives from several community radio stations emphasized their role as a third-pillar of the Canadian broadcasting system during the CRTC’s hearings on Thursday, urging the regulator to develop a new funding model that supports them.
As the regulator works out...
Canada’s news media are in crisis and the government is taking too long to respond, the House of...
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO), newly certified as an independent...
BCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...
The long-awaited hearing on how the CRTC should...
Tuesday Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge issued the final policy direction to the CRTC that will implement the Online Streaming Act. The bill was passed last spring and the commission has been holding consultations on the policy directions this summer. Over 500...
Stéphanie Paquette has been named as a regional commissioner for Quebec on the CRTC, it was announced Tuesday. She begins her five-year term on Nov. 23.
She comes to the commission from Quebecor...
Stingray Group Inc. reported a 6.3 per cent increase in revenue during its...
Kid and family entertainment company WildBrain Ltd. released its Q1 2024 results Tuesday evening,...
The Canadian Media Guild has settled a strike against public broadcaster TV Ontario. Workers had been on...
Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Group announced Thursday a series of changes to cut down on operating costs, resulting in the elimination of 547 positions or 31 per cent of the company’s current workforce....
A host of problems led Corus Entertainment Inc. to post a difficult fourth quarter and year end results, the firm’s president and CEO told an analysts’ call.
“I would use the term double...
BCE Inc. and Fox Entertainment Global have unveiled a strategic licensing and distribution partnership,...
As the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and...
Rogers Communications Inc. has shuttered its all-news station in the nation’s capital and laid off all its employees. CKOY-AM was known as CityNews Ottawa. There were fewer than 10 people on staff. The station went dark at 1 p.m. Thursday.
“The station had ongoing...
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) published a comprehensive report on...
The CRTC is proposing to loosen some of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s...
The efficacy of the Online News Act was called into question during the Senate’s Question Period...
The Conservative Party continued its attack on CBC/Radio-Canada Tuesday...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal for leave to appeal a CRTC decision which renewed its television and specialty channel broadcast licences...
Broadcasting arbitrator Monica Song has released her list of free time political broadcasting allocated to the federal parties. The last update was in March. Time is allocated according to a formula...
Conservative MP Rachael Thomas brought a motion before the House of Commons...
Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. (CPAC) announced changes to its board of directors as it launches a...
APTN says its proposal to shift the terms of its licence will be good for...
Striking members of the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) have voted to reject the latest offer from provincial...
The CRTC has determined that online services that...
The CRTC denied an application by CBC/Radio-Canada to delay consultations...
The CRTC will review the carriage of Fox News as a non-Canadian programming...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled a new list of parliamentary secretaries as Parliament returns for its fall session.
Taleeb Noormohamed will serve as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pascale St Onge. The Vancouver MP replaces St. Catharines Liberal Chris Bittle, who becomes PS to the Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities.
Ryan Turnbull of Whitby Ont. is the new assistant to Innovation, Science and Industry...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain...
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)...
The CRTC Friday granted an FM licence to Four Senses Entertainment Inc. to...
Animators at WildBrain Ltd.’s Vancouver studios are attempting to unionize. A drive by the...
Dissatisfaction with the Online Streaming Act and defunding the CBC are among the resolutions being raised at the Conservative Party of Canada policy convention coming up in Quebec City. A 51-page book of policy statements has been released by the party in advance of the...
The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s...
The CRTC said Tuesday that it was altering the rules for commercials on discretionary services. The...
Canadian retail chain Peavey Mart has joined Stingray Group Inc.’s audio advertising network, according...
The CRTC added Natyf Inc., a Francophone station...
The CRTC issued another short-term broadcasting licence renewal after it...
The broadcasting licence for Cogeco Inc.’s...
Unionized workers at TVOntario walked off the job on Monday, marking the first strike the public...
The CRTC will defer new applications and complaints relating to radio as it...
A community radio station in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia has been issued a short term licence renewal from the CRTC, despite consistent non-compliance with regulations, due to the...
Philip Lind, one of the earliest hires at Rogers Communications Inc., has died at the age of 80, the...
BCE Inc. has announced it is closing its Vrak Channel and is laying the blame squarely at the feet of...
The CRTC is being directed to include modified...
Once again the CRTC has decided to issue a short term renewal licence to a...
Two radio stations in British Columbia have been granted short-term renewals of their licences due to non-compliance with CRTC regulations. The companies have been ordered to...
Blue Ant Media and Marblemedia have decided to merge their operations into one firm, the companies said...
WildBrain Ltd. is accusing BCE Inc. of breaching its regulatory obligations...
Stingray Group Inc. reported revenue and subscriber growth for the first quarter of the 2024 fiscal year...
A group of news organizations have filed an application with the...
The Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear two appeals brought by Rebel News Network Ltd. against...
Canadian public broadcasting advocacy group...
OTTAWA–Pascale St-Onge vows to keep up the fight with tech giants over...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is the third best workplace in the...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposal to change its condition of licence (COL) by expanding the definition of programs of national interest (PNI) must be “dismissed...
